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Israeli Designer Yinnon Lehrer Encourages Urban Biking with Vertical Bike Racks

Yinnon Lehrer's urban long-term bike parking solution encourages more commuters to keep on pedaling. If you've ever thought about commuting to work everyday on your...

Join the Betacup Competition. Win $10,000 for Sustainable Coffee Cup Design

Betacup competition urges global participants to find a sustainable alternative to the wasteful, ubiquitous coffee cup. Even environmentalists with the best of intentions might...

Cygalle Shapiro Creates LED Lamp Powered Organically… By Tomatoes

Israel-based design team creates an LED lamp packed with Lycopene and powered completely by tomatoes.  Yum. When it comes to energy-saving and eco-friendly design, we've...

Bank Hapoalim Presents an Exhibition of 22 Futuristic Green Houses and 2 Green Mortgages

An Israeli bank tries to sell "green mortgages" with installation exhibit on busy boulevard. As part of their campaign to sell "green mortgages" (in other...

H&M Israel's CEO, Andrew Horesh, Speaks About Sustainable Clothing

H&M Israel's CEO talks about his motive for importing H&M's sustainable fashion line Thousands of Israelis have flocked to the newly opened H&M stores in...

Sakina Design Brings an Environmental Conscience to Contemporary Islamic Design

Islamic wall art and greeting cards, with religious intonations in line with green values in Islam. Sakina Design's logo is green not only because the...

PopLove Designs Brings Upcycled Eco Chic Fashion to Tel Aviv (and the Whole Wide World)

We've heard about H&M's imported influx of sustainable fashion, and now onto to local eco-friendly clothing design: PopLove Designs. A design label that produces men's...

Eco Underwear from Delta Galil

Slip on some sexy, comfy and green underwear, developed in the Middle East

You Call This Garbage? Hasadna Upcycled Design Workshop Doesn't.

Used ice-cream taster spoons turn into delightful eco-inspired lamp. It happened to me just the other night, when I was standing at the counter...

H&M Israel Brings Sustainable Fashion to the (Overwhelming) Masses

The thousands of Israelis crowding Azrieli Mall in Tel Aviv last week, anxiously waiting as early as 6am for a grand H&M opening that...

'Zendegi' in Neve Tzedek Offers Highest Quality Organic, Fair Trade Clothes

The first time I entered Zendegi, a natural and organic clothing shop in Tel Aviv's historic Neve Tzedek neighborhood, a particularly unique pair of...

9 Israeli Etsy Shops That Make Online Shopping Greener (and Funner)

Etsy, for those who don't yet know, is an online forum for handmade products.  The handmade revolution is green in and of itself, since...

Inbal Weisman's Upcycled Fabric Owls Are a Hoot and a Green Prophet Giveaway!

Recycled owls are a hoot. Win one in this Green Prophet giveaway. Conveying a wise message of reuse that suits their owl-like form, Inbal...

Tel Aviv Jewelery Designer Lilyja Does Her Share With Recycled Silver

Apparently if you put your mind to it, you can recycle any kind of material.  This Green Prophet had never heard of recycling silver,...

Brigitte Cartier and Hiria Searching for Volunteer Upcycling Arts and Crafters

Brigitte Cartier, a French-born artist who has been living and creating in Tel Aviv for the past 15 years and who now comfortably tackles...

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Peoria Charter Services: The Smart Way to Travel in Comfort and Style

Traveling in a group can often become stressful when transportation is not planned properly. Whether it is a corporate outing, school trip, wedding event, sports tournament, or family vacation, choosing reliable transportation makes a huge difference. This is where Peoria charter services become the ideal solution for smooth and comfortable travel.

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Signs of Shavuot: Grief, Love and Choosing Life

Shavuot is a holiday heavy with symbolism. While it marks the end of the counting of the omer, it also functions as a miniature jubilee. The fiftieth day like a tiny echo of the fifty year cycle. And in each of the seventh years during that cycle, acts of rest and liberation are performed, especially in the fiftieth year.

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